I would also like to echo Dr. Bailey's remarks. Being situated in Tuskegee, Alabama, I do recommend that these funding lines remain separate.

And so I close with this reminder. I want everyone to know that there are hundreds of thousands of African-American successful contributors to this nation and the world who would not have achieved that success if they did not have that way…

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We thank you for that.

to recruit, educate, and train more African-American students for careers in the very important, critical, and growing fields of agriculture, farming, and agribusiness.

Oh, well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, again, thank you very much for your leadership in providing this hearing.

Mr. President, I pledge to you that I will do everything I can through the strength of Christ who strengthens me to better the condition of our people.

as Congressman Scott pointed out, began in Tuskegee in 1896 when George Washington Carver joined the Tuskegee faculty

This extraordinary, historic hearing today would not have happened if it were not for the hard work and the help, tremendous help, and the leadership of Mike Conaway.

If we are not willing to do that for our soldiers, I mean, how does that speak of our nation?

The issue is, and you put your finger on it, we in Congress sit here. Many of those voices who want to cut this program come from Congress, comes from us.

It is a very, very particular disgrace and shame of this nation that disabled veterans... are twice as likely to be a part of a food-insecure household.

Why? What in God's name is causing people to want to so drastically cut a program of food stamps when our soldiers need it to exist?

the only way out of poverty is a job, and work.

We are here to carry on that mighty work that these extraordinary founders of the 1890s established to improve and better the condition of all of the American people.

Mr. Speaker, just a few weeks ago, in Fulton County, Georgia, officers of the Fulton County Police Department were alerted to shots fired in a neighborhood around 1:30 in the morning. The initial call indicated that a man was terrorizing…

We have to get the word out that agriculture--of course, agriculture is our largest industry.

Mr. President, I begin my remarks by commending Ranking Member Murray and Chairman Alexander on a tremendous due diligence effort to see to it that we finally answered the question that States have been asking for 7 years; that is, when…